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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was a little tomboy. When I came into the sport, there wasn't many women. I raced with the boys; I looked up to the boys, and all my mentors were boys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess people have this image of women being more compassionate, being the mother, being caring, but I don't know if that's true. I think it's an image we've all carried over the years. I never want to attribute certain qualities to gender.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you have to figure out things that aren't explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would encourage women to think about leaders in different fields or companies who they can draw parallels with. For example, I am constantly studying the lives and lessons of leaders in fields outside of technology, from the arts to politics. There is always something to learn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
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New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
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- Nov 07, 2020